Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Politics Morning Roundup: In Which Three Groups Make All the News
Posted by Betsy Phillips on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:32 AM
While Bredesen said the Department of Corrections can't be expected to produce the same cuts as other agencies and "you're obviously not going to let prisoners out on the streets and close prisons to do it," the cuts are going to have to come from somewhere.
"I obviously am not interested in turning hardened criminals out on the street. We'll figure some way around that," he said.
But in a Tennessean story about the possibility of releasing prisoners early, the Governor was singing a slightly different tune, "If you were going to take that dramatic step, I would only want to do it with the assurance that I got the budget savings I would expect."...
The Metro Council will discuss permitting guns in rural parks again tonight... The Metro Council is defending Metro Parks chief Roy Wilson in the cost-overrun snafu, with Council member Vivian Wilhoite bringing almost blogger-level snark to the proceedings. Particularly juicy: Wilhoite's wondering aloud why the Metro bigwig responsible for PR overages on the convention center isn't feeling the same heat....
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